Here's the secret: stop buying shit from amazon. JFC people.

I've been buying from Amazon for years. Not sure whether I'll ever be able to cut them out completely, but I have never paid for Prime and I never will. I pretty much only make an order when I have enough in my cart to qualify for free shipping, and I don't mind waiting a week for it. If I need it sooner (rarely) I pay for shipping.

Would be nice if there was a non firewall link for this.

🌎👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

I coulda told you that.

black Friday, boxing day, prime day.. whatever you wanna call it hasn't been a deal in at least 10 years..

Amazon is a racket. There, FTFY

https://archive.is/2025.10.04-055849/https://www.levernews.com/amazon-prime-day-is-a-racket/

The Keepa browser extension is a great way to see that grift, with graphs. Every time someone tells me about a good deal on Amazon, I show them that it's a price markup from the price 3-6 months ago, and teh "sale" is 10% off that marked up price.

Remember, this is all justified because Jeff Bezos does not yet have enough money.

(Ironically the article is paywalled. Here is the archive link.)